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Khartoum -Hopes are running high in Sudan that US President Donald Trump will decide this week to lift Washington’s sanctions on Khartoum, despite rights groups calling for the decades-old embargo to be maintained. “The time is right for permanently lifting the sanctions on Sudan,” senior Sudanese foreign ministry official Abdelghani Elnaim told AFP ahead of the end of a review ...

The Belgian has chosen not to wear Wayne Rooney’s No.10 jersey, instead opting for the number he carries at international level Romelu Lukaku has revealed he will wear the Manchester United No.9 shirt vacated after receiving “permission” from Zlatan Ibrahimovic. Lukaku is set to complete his £75 million move from Everton in the coming hours after undergoing a medical on ...

Johannesburg – Africa has several new sites on the United Nations world heritage list, including an old royal capital in Angola, the Eritrean capital of Asmara and a desert area in South Africa that was inhabited during the Stone Age. Unesco said this weekend at a meeting in Poland that Mbanza Kongo in northwest Angola was the capital of the ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin is a man of many outdoor hobbies, as the Kremlin often likes to point out, and motorbike riding is one of them. In a recent slip of the tongue about his ride, however, Putin has raised questions about the honesty of his property records. Strolling past the Mitsubishi stand at Russia’s annual Innoprom engineering exhibition in ...

Kinshasa – The main opposition party in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday blasted as a “provocation” and a power grab an announcement that elections to end a deep political crisis in the mineral-rich country will likely not be held this year. The president of DRC’s electoral commission, Corneille Nangaa, had told reporters in Paris on Friday that “it ...

Liverpool believe that they have a secret weapon in their campaign to sign Naby Keïta from RB Leipzig this summer: former manager Gérard Houllier. Jurgen Klopp is reportedly desperate to sign Keita ahead of the new season, as he looks to bolster his team ahead of his first Champions League campaign with the team. Keita, 22, played an integral role in Lepizig’s surprise challenge for the Bundesliga title last ...

Most people would assume that Wayne Rooney is desperate to pull on the blue of Everton after his switch from Manchester United, but he has revealed that he has actually been wearing the club’s pyjamas for the past 13 years. The 31-year old has made a sensational return to the club he supported and then represented as a boy. He ...

DIFFA, NIGER, July 6 (Reuters) – Soldiers in Niger killed 14 unarmed civilians after mistaking them for Boko Haram militants during a patrol in the remote southeast of the country, a senior regional official said on Thursday. Nigerien soldiers were patrolling a militarily restricted zone around the village of Abadam near Lake Chad on Wednesday afternoon when they opened fire ...

In the wake of President Trump’s decision to remove America from the Paris Climate agreement, you’d be forgiven for feeling a little negative about the future of the planet.   With reports of huge cracks appearing in the Antarctic ice, fears that preventing the two degree heating of the planet might be a pipe dream, and the world’s food supplies at risk – everything looks ...

MANCHESTER UNITED fans have torn into Real Madrid on Twitter over the club’s treatment of Alvaro Morata. Real striker Morata was poised to seal a move to Old Trafford this summer but United were reluctant to meet the £76million valuation of the 24-year-old. Morata had been in contact with Jose Mourinho and reportedly agreed personal terms ahead of a deal ...